Utnapishtim
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thumb|Cuneiform script|Cuneiform tablet with the [[Atra-Hasis epic in the British Museum]] Uta-napishtim or Utnapishtim (, "he has found life") was a legendary mortal king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat.
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- Ut-Napishtim makes Offering to the Gods.jpeg
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- Utnapishtim Makes Offering to the Gods by Allan Stewart, 1916
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- Utnapishtim
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- Sumerian King List
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- Epic of Gilgamesh
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- King of Shuruppak ()
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- Ubara-Tutu (father)
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thumb|Cuneiform script|Cuneiform tablet with the [[Atra-Hasis epic in the British Museum]] Uta-napishtim or Utnapishtim (, "he has found life") was a legendary mortal king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat.
He is called by different names in different traditions: Ziusudra ("Life of long days", rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the earliest, Sumerian versions, later Shuruppak (after his city), Atra-hasis ("exceeding wise") in the earliest Akkadian sources, and Uta-napishtim ("he has found life") in later Akkadian sources such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. His father was the king Ubar-Tutu ("Friend of the god Tutu").